Antonyms for hopelessnesshope·less·ness

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1. hopelessness

   Discouragement is the result of so much repulse or failure as wears out courage. Discouragements too frequent and long continued may produce a settled hopelessness. Hopelessness is negative, and may result from simple apathy; despondency and despair are more emphatic and decided. Despondency is an incapacity for the present exercise of hope; despair is the utter abandonment of hope. Despondency relaxes energy and effort and is always attended with sadness or distress; despair may produce a stony calmness, or it may lead to desperation. Desperation is energized despair, vigorous in action, reckless of consequences.

   Antonyms:
   anticipation, assurance, cheer, confidence, courage, elation, encouragement, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, trust

   Synonyms:
   despair, desperation, despondency, discouragement

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1. • Despair

Princeton's WordNetRate this antonym:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hopelessnessnoun

   the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

   Antonyms:
   hopefulness

How to use hopelessness in a sentence?

1. Nelly Cheboi:

   One of the hardest things about growing up in poverty is hopelessness. You think of yourself as less than, i wanted to turn that into, ‘This can happen for you, too.’.

2. Perry Bellegarde:

   We will no longer accept poverty and hopelessness while resource companies and governments grow fat off our land and territories and resources, if our lands and resources are to be developed it will be done only with our fair share of the royalties, with our ownership of the resources and jobs for our people. It will be done on our terms and our timeline.

3. Nathan M. Pusey:

   It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. To refuse to become frustrated and angry, to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain. To determine to be adult and fair. And, thus, to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism and hopelessness. It is the long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have truly to understand the role of humane learning.

4. Kim Jong:

   Hunger is humiliation, hunger is hopelessness.

5. Bob Reish:

   When we write our goals down, we are able to use them as a road map when we feel lost in the stress and the hopelessness of the moment.

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